Observations on Mexican history and archæology, with a special notice of Zapotec remains, as delineated in Mr. J. G. Sawkins's drawings of Mitla .. (1856)
is unbroken even by the songs of birds. Perhaps it was — not only in location, but destination — an aboriginal Escorial, where life, death, and religion mingled their austere but courtly pageants. Plate No. 1 presents a general picture of the ruins ; while the following cut, A, taken from a drawing… … A large portion of the valley in the neighborhood of the three mountains, seen in Plate 1, is said to be still covered with heaps indicating the sites of ancient architecture ; but, as most of the ground is under cultivation, every relic of the architecture itself is destroyed, and even the…
Zapotec Indians
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